Front cover Make Do And Mend leaflet number 4 issued by the Board of Trade, 1940s. Second world war, WWII, children's clothes, knickers, socks, mother, wartime, do it yourself, cutting down grown-up clothes for children,

Flyer for the English State Lottery to be drawn on February 14, 1810 published by Swift & Co, printed by James Whiting, Finsbury Place, London. Saint Valentine's Day, advertising, publicity leaflets, illustration, revenue, prize-money, lottery...

Instructions and rules for the Victorian parlour game of Piladex, c. 1900. From the illustration on the back, the game being played is a cross between table tennis and badminton with the use of small racquets and an inflated ball or balloon across a...